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New York: The Viking Press, 1946. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 688 pages, with Editor's Introduction. Poetry and excerpts of prose arranged in sections including on trans-Atlantic exploration, the revolution in astronomy, politics, the rise of Protestantism, history, lyric poetry. 18mo (4-1/4" x 6-3/4"), blue cloth (faded) with darker blue and gilt lettering, heavy wear especially to front board, front hinge cracked with cloth split and frayed along it, faded red edge-stain. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff, his marginalia and/or underscoring and some by Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (as students) on approximately 150 pages.